Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-08-16

None OF the disorder or picnic spirit of the
old time camp meeting is here. None at ALL
The streets OF Paradise could not BE- WORE
decorOus than those of Ocean Grove, night
and dny People with a taste for rlle roy
STEERING do not come here. If they did they
would be miserable and soon leave, be-
cause the moral atmosphere would not suit
them. A Bowery rough would not be at east
in Fifth avenue parlor among refined ladies
and gentlemen. The Ocean Grove managers
have taken the very best means for keeping
out objectionable people. They have permit
ted nothing that would allure them The
consequence Is they have city by the sea
destitute Of active evi-a place in which
there is no rest for the sole OF the foot 6!
wickedness.
This is a walled city-the only one in the
United States. Its walls are of picketS, to he
sure; but they are efrectual in keeping out
disturbing elements. Its wide gates swing
open every secular day, but on Sunday they
are closed and locked and no wheeled thing
can enter. This is not because the people of
the Grove believe there is any peculiar i'm
pety or viciousness in wheels, but because
they want to cons ecrate the day to religious
service, and do not want to run the risk of
being disturbed by the idle and curious who
otherwise would make these quiet groves a
gay pleasure drive when the owners thereof
most wished for quiet
You can walk over from Asburv Park. A
little lake, no wider than city street divides
The Grove from the park. Ferries run
uross, and the plank walk by the beach
'ffords pedestrians means Of ingress. The
title lake is named for the great founder OF
the Methodist church--Wesley Cushioned
and canopied boats, wee limitations of Vene-
tian gondoas, line its sides and carry passen-
gers across and up and down the lake at
rate fixed by the Grove and Park authorities
one cent across and ten up or down the
length Of the lake. At night they are deco
rated with Chinese lanterns, aud make the
little sheet of still water as brilliant as a
chrome.
The Grove managers put into execution a
great and but dimly recognized truth They
make the road to heaven attractive. When
the outside world fully comprehends that
morality and piety are sure to follow in the
wake Of hygiene and beauty. we shall have
a new world. II it We're possible to house,
clothe and feed all mankind comfort
ably, with few things in the way of beauty
thrown in, vice would vanish in a few geuer-
atoms and evil depart forever Here the
mind is rested and turned hea venward
because there is nothing whatever to turn it
i'll an opposite direction. The sight of flowers
the song Of birds, the sounds of praise are
everywhere. No sorrowful spectacles OF
human want make the heart sink; no de-
graded creatures enter here Surely the
soul that could not look aloft here could not
anywhere.
Nothing in the nature of trade goes on
within tfese gates. l have not vet seen even
he ine, liable drug store l think there is
zone. don't blame them for excluding it.
or il there was drug store it would have a
,oda fountain, and who could forget the
world within hearing distance of the tizz of
said fountain! l couldn't. No; l think they
o over to Asbury Park, which is shade
more worldly, when they want drugs or
sofia
They do not 60 down to the beach from the
Grove so much as from the Park. Nor do
they move about on their sidewalks so much
lay or night. Groceries, fruits and other ed
lbles are purchased from dealers who drive
through the Grove in wagons at most deco
tous pace very early in the morning The
cut OF bathing dresses is very much more ST.
we're on this side Of the lake than in Asbury
The preferred trousers come to the heels, and
are fuiied in to an elastic band. The skirt is
rot far bcniad them in length. This outfit
admits Of no pigeonwing cutting in the water,
AMI nothing larky in the way of gait out of
the water, either. 1t is, indeed, most hap
PLY designed for curbing freshness. This,
is the costume for ladies'
Gentlemen wear the same kind of bathing